It’s Official… Duke Sucks
Via Fanhouse via The Wizard of Odds via The Courier-Journal, check out this fine piece of lawyerin’:
Duke backs out of a scheduled four-game series with Louisville after the first game, causing the Cardinals to sue for the buyout money.
The buyout stipulated that Duke had to pay $150k for each voided game if a “team of similar stature” could not be lined up as a replacement, and here comes the catch for Louisville. Duke’s lawyers argued the 6-45 Blue Devils sucked so badly that virtually any football team would be of “similar stature” and the buyout was unenforceable.
The judge agreed.
All laughing about the “We suck so bad, what does it matter?” defense aside, they really do have a point. It’s not like Louisville could do much worse for ticket sales, unless they started scraping the barrel for teams like Liberty. And they didn’t even have to do that: the Courier-Journal says that they put Memphis on the schedule instead.
I know the Cardinals really wanted that guaranteed win… maybe that should have been their response. “We know they suck, that’s why we scheduled them!”
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Predictive Blade Headline: “AFTER GMAC APPEARANCE, GREGG BRANDON AGREES TO 4-GAME SERIES WITH LOUISVILLE”
By Ben on Jun 24, 2008